Lesson 13, March 20-26
Sabbath Afternoon
Memory Text: “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” Isaiah 65:17
One day, a 12-year-old boy, having just read a book on astronomy, refused to go to school. His mother took the child to the family doctor, who asked, “Billy, what’s the matter? Why don’t you want to study or go to school anymore?”
“Because, Doctor,” he said, “I read in this astronomy book that one day the sun is going to burn out and all life on earth will vanish. I don’t see any reason to do anything if, in the end, everything will die out.”
The mother, hysterical, shouted, “It’s not your business! It’s not your business!”
The doctor smiled and said, “But, Billy, you don’t need to worry, because by the time this happens, we’ll all be long dead, anyway.”
Of course, that’s part of the problem: In the end, we’re all dead, anyway.
Fortunately, our existence doesn’t have to end in death. On the contrary, we have been offered life, eternal life, in a world made new.
